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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 33 days 10 hours 37 minutes
episode 23: Stuart Ritchie, "Science Fictions: Exposing Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype in Science" (Penguin Books, 2020)
Scientists seek the truth, and we rely on them. Should we?
episode 120: Richard Breitman, "The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies"(Oxford Academic/USHMM)
"The Journal of Holocaust and Genocide Studies" is turning twenty-five...
episode 53: J. Browning and T. Silver, "An Environmental History of the Civil War" (UNC Press, 2020)
This sweeping new history recognizes that the Civil War was not just a military conflict but also a moment of profound transformation in Americans' relationship to the natural world....
episode 60: Daniel P. Aldrich, "Black Wave: How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan’s 3/11 Disasters" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...
episode 22: Solomon Goldstein-Rose, "The 100% Solution: A Plan for Solving Climate Change" (Melville House, 2020)
In this New Books Network interview, we speak about the political, industrial, and scientific changes that need to occur by 2050 to solve climate change, as well as the importance of focusing on real solutions rather than wallowing in fear....
episode 768: JoAnna Poblete, "Balancing the Tides: Marine Practices in American Samoa" (U Hawai’i Press, 2020)
Poblete demonstrates how western-style economics, policy-making, and knowledge building imposed by the U.S. federal government have been infused into the daily lives of American Samoans...
episode 255: Sandra Postel, "Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity" (Island Press, 2020)
To understand our past and provide hope for our future Sandra takes readers around the world to explore water projects....
R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk, "Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value" (Business Expert Press, 2017)
Sroufe and Melnyk provide a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety of disciplines and professional backgrounds...
episode 57: Thaisa Way, "River Cities, City Rivers" (Dumbarton Oaks, 2018)
Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history...
episode 70: Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops" (Duke UP, 2020)
Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...